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4201 Growing Pains That Still Grow

4201 Growing Pains That Still Grow

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Why does growing have to hurt? I mean, we talk about growth like it's this beautiful, sun-drenched thing — butterflies emerging, flowers blooming, all of it wrapped in soft lighting and your favorite song playing in the background. And sure, sometimes it is that. But other times? Other times it feels like you've been turned inside out. Like the life you built — the one that fit so perfectly last year — is suddenly two sizes too small, and you can't breathe in it anymore. That's the part no one puts on the vision board: growing pains that still grow. You know the feeling. Something in your life starts to shift — maybe it's your perspective, maybe it's your priorities, maybe it's your prayer life — and suddenly the relationships that once felt like home start to feel a little… off. Not because those people did anything wrong. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the Kairos FREE Online Community. https://createyournow.com #WellspringWednesday #CreateYourNow #HealthAndWellness But because you're not the same person who walked into those rooms. And that's a strange kind of grief, isn't it? Grieving something that isn't gone — it just doesn't fit the way it used to. Or maybe for you it's not a relationship. Maybe it's a role. The title you carried proudly for years — the one that used to define you — and now it feels like a borrowed coat. Too heavy. Too stiff. You keep wearing it because you don't know who you are without it, but every morning it gets a little harder to button up and pretend it's still yours. Here's what I want you to know: that ache? It's not a warning sign. It's not God telling you something went wrong. It's the exact opposite. It's the stretch marks of the soul, and they only show up when something inside you is expanding faster than the space you've been living in. Think about it this way. When a child has growing pains — those middle-of-the-night, throbbing-leg, "Mama, it hurts" moments — no parent panics and says, "Quick, make her stop growing!" You rub their legs. You tell them it's going to be okay. You remind them that what hurts right now is actually proof that their body is doing exactly what it was made to do. So why don't we extend ourselves the same grace? I think it's because we've been quietly taught that discomfort means disobedience. That if we were really walking in God's will, the path would be smoother. But Scripture tells a very different story. Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." All things. Not just the beautiful things. Not just the comfortable things. The aching, awkward, "I don't even recognize myself anymore" things — He's working in those too. And sometimes, honestly? The discomfort is the work. I remember a season — and maybe you've had one like it — where I had to let go of something I loved. Not because it was bad. It was good. It was familiar. But it had become a hiding place, and God doesn't grow us in hiding places. He grows us in open fields where the wind can reach us. Where we're exposed, yes — but also where we can finally spread out. That letting go didn't feel like freedom at first. It felt like loss. But on the other side of it? That's where the bloom was waiting. C.S. Lewis once wrote, "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg." I love that. Because it captures the absurdity of what we sometimes try to do — we want the wings without the cracking. We want the new life without the death of the old shape. But that's not how becoming works. Becoming is a series of holy interruptions. It's God saying, I love you too much to let you stay comfortable when I created you for something bigger. And if that makes your chest tight and your eyes sting a little — good. That means you're paying attention. Grow through the ache. The K.I.S.S. ~ Grow through the ache! So what do we do with the ache? How do we keep walking when every step stretches us past what feels safe? 1. NAME ONE AREA where growth is causing discomfort, and resist the urge to shrink back to a more comfortable size. This takes more courage than it sounds like. Because shrinking is so subtle. It doesn't announce itself. It shows up as "maybe I was being too ambitious," or "I should just be grateful for what I have," or "who am I to think I could do that?" And gratitude is beautiful, and humility is necessary. But there's a difference between being humble and being hidden. Isaiah 54:2 says, "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes." God isn't asking you to be comfortable. He's asking you to make room. Maybe right now that means staying in the hard conversation instead of backing away from it.Maybe it means keeping your hand raised for that ...
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